The Kurgan-van Hentenryk Chair in Business History which aims at advancing and diffusing research in the field of business history, with a special emphasis on the history of the knowledge economy, organises a workshop on the Entrepreneurial State and the Innovative Enterprise.

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management - Executive Education is pleased to announce that, function of pending approval by the relevant boards and authorities, it intends to partner with the Department of Economics at Georgetown University to launch the Advanced Master in Political Economy starting in the Fall of 2017. The degree will be jointly awarded by both institutions.

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom have been awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work in contract theory. Their contributions were the genesis of an extensive and novel literature. Contract theory quickly found applications in other fields like finance, organization theory, macroeconomics, international trade, industrial organization and political economy.

Both Prize winners are well known to our university, and this Prize holds special meaning for ULB.